Acanthopleura miles (Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893)
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Acanthopleura miles View in CoL (Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893)
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Chiton (Sclerochiton) miles Carpenter View in CoL in Pilsbry 1893: 189, pl. 46, figs 1–5; E.A. Smith 1903: 619.
Acanthopleura miles View in CoL ; Ferreira, 1986: 239, figs 41–47, 115 (bibliography and synonymy); Britton & Morton 2003: 55; Brooker 2003: 52, figs 5.23, 6.21, 7.22, 8.20; Yoshioka & Nakashima 1996: 41, figs 1D, 3–6; Yoshioka 1997: 254, fig. 2; Yoshioka et al. 1999: 79, fig. 2; Saito 2006: 122, fig. 6F.
Squamopleura miles View in CoL ; Slieker 2000: 54, pl. 14, fig. 10; Kaas et al. 2006: 289, fig. 117 (bibliography and synonymy); Schwabe 2006: 111.
Type: Holotype, NHM 198017
Type locality: Australia, Torres Strait .
Material examined: Japan, Okinawa, Sesoko Island: 1 spm (B. Dell’Angelo colln 4540).
Remarks: A detailed description of this species is given by Kaas et al. (2006).
We attribute this species to the genus Acanthopleura following Brooker (2003). This author, on the basis of a cladistic analysis based on a high number of characters (222), concludes that the position of the three species that formerly belonged to the genus Squamopleura [ Acanthopleura curtisiana ( Smith, 1884) , A. miles (Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893), and A. araucariana (Hedley, 1898) ] has a terminal clade within Acanthopleura and this justifies Ferreira’s (1986) synonymy of this genus with Acanthopleura . This synonymy has not been without controversy, and mainly relates to the various definitions of scales as opposed to spines.
Smith (1903) reported the species from Maldives but we failed to find this species, and give an illustration of a specimen from Japan.
Distribution: Acanthopleura miles is a very common intertidal species, widely distributed in the Indo- Pacific, from the Maldive Islands and Sri Lanka in the west to New Guinea in the east, and from Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan in the north to northwestern Australia in the south.
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Acanthopleura miles
Dell’Angelo, Bruno, Gori, Sandro, Baschieri, Leonardo & Bonfitto, Antonio 2010 |
Squamopleura miles
Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. & Strack, H. L. 2006: 289 |
Slieker, F. J. A. 2000: 54 |
Acanthopleura miles
Saito, H. 2006: 122 |
Britton, J. C. & Morton, B. 2003: 55 |
Brooker, L. R. 2003: 52 |
Yoshioka, E. & Ikebe, Y. & Fujitani, E. & Okuda, N. 1999: 79 |
Yoshioka, E. 1997: 254 |
Yoshioka, E. & Nakashima, Y. 1996: 41 |
Ferreira, A. J. 1986: 239 |
Chiton (Sclerochiton) miles
Smith, E. A. 1903: 619 |